Latest Contributions by mrmark

Same thing here. Turned off all options. Tried all settings. Uninstall, reinstall. Nothing changes. A PDF is created, but no version of Acrobat will open it, I even tried a Mac and Preview also says it's damaged. Foxit Reader. The PDF is just not right.  Windows 10 Enterprise (latest updates, version 1709 build 16299.15) ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2 ... View more

A couple of other feedback thoughts in no particular order: Why can't the Output layer be named something other than the Input + _Geocoded? (https://byu.box.com/s/rd1wbsdgttkpo35ytdplld3jsx8rfthr  - if there was sound you'd hear me repeatedly hitting the enter key while nothing happens on the screen) minor annoyance, but there is no way to rapidly click and select the entire name of the output layer - the underscore acts as a barrier. Having to try and click and drag to select, especially when some tools will suddenly shift to showing the entire path when you start to select, is difficult to get just right, making it even more time consuming. If a user elects to enter the Rematch dialog after geocoding, there isn't any clear method of getting out. If you work through the un-matched, it suddenly starts showing you the matched ones. If you try to select the Unmatched view when there aren't any unmatched, it doesn't say there aren't any unmatched, it just goes back to showing you all the matched ones. I've had students and faculty ask if they really needed to go through all of the addresses one by one to check them before they could be done. The importance of a Done / Save button is doubly important if they did match some of the unmatched addresses because it opens an edit session on the layer.  I didn't see in any of the documentation that a user could create their own view without having to have an administrator share it with the organization in order for it to work.  It appears that that would work - hard to tell when none of it works This would be particularly important feature at a University where there are so many different faculty and students doing geocoding for literally hundreds of study areas. It just isn't realistic or desirable to have a list of 100 locators automatically added to every project that logs in to our organization For example - this semester an Econ class has several years worth of home sales data for a handful of large cities, and each group of students has a specific quadrant of the city, so creating locator views based on bounding boxes that can be used by individuals and groups without having to publish them to the entire university would be wonderful. ... View more

As a professor who teaches and has watched university faculty and students with very little GIS experience try to perform this "simple" task, but also as an Esri software user for 28+ years, here are some other thoughts. Sorry it is so long, but you seem to actually be interested in the feedback, so I'm attempting to paint an accurate picture for you (not just grousing). The help page you linked to is very useful (as usual), but if nobody sees it, it doesn't matter how good it is. How does Esri envision people getting to those pages? Following the Help link from the Geocode Addresses tool (Geocode Addresses—Help | ArcGIS Desktop ) has none of this information. The 2nd bullet point in the Usage section actually states: "Only locators stored in a file folder can be used for geocoding with ArcGIS Pro."  At the bottom it does mention the World Geocoding Service, but that link also has nothing that would indicate that it is a composite locator by default, let alone any indication that behavior can be changed with custom views Use the ArcGIS Online World Geocoding Service—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop  for more information. "The ArcGIS Online World Geocoding Service allows you to find addresses or places in the world, geocode a table of addresses." sets the expectation that if you give it addresses, it will find addresses. The majority of students, faculty, and myself, use geocoding to geolocate street addresses in a table. With the new Geocode Table workflow walkthrough, they feel even better about doing it themselves.  This is only reinforced by the absence of any link to the help pages from the Geocode Table geoprocessing tool (the method most of our users are using). There are individual field help prompts, but no tool help option. As I went through all the help links from ArcGIS Pro I have to side with my users who just can't fathom why they gave street addresses to ArcGIS Pro - which says it matched 99%+ of their addresses - but have hundreds or thousands of addresses "matched" to the same spot on a line segment, or in an administrative district, etc. It only took me a moment to open the attribute table and confirm that the World Geocoding Service is a composite locator. BUT! I still couldn't figure out why none of the help links I was using really spelled that out. I was more confused when I saw your answer as to why I never found my way to any of those pages ... until I noticed that all of the content you sent is in the ArcGIS Online documentation. The economics class or real estate class that just want to plot their data on a map don't understand that while they are using ArcGIS Pro to geocode addresses, they are really consuming an ArcGIS Online service - but the Help documentation only discusses the ArcGIS Pro half of the tool.  Putting the paragraph and picture from the help document on creating composite locators Create a composite locator—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop ) with a clear message that "This is how the World Geocoding Service works" would help tremendously. Putting that and a link to the content about creating views would be even better. With the interdependence of your products, the documentation can't just be about the one piece a user is interacting with. ... View more

First - following the directions on the page you linked (Create a locator view ) doesn't work.  Tested creating a view for street addresses using an account with our default user Role (Student - a few more things than Publisher) Shared it with our organization As Admin, added it to our organization's list of locators Signed in to ArcGIS Pro using the account I created the locator with. It shows up in the locators, and allows me to select it to geocode my small list of addresses (21).  Fails saying I have to have an ArcGIS Online account Change to ArcGIS World Geocoding Service (only change) - runs & succeeds fine. Restart ArcGIS Pro (just being extra careful) & sign in as our AGOL admin Fails saying I have to have an ArcGIS Online account Change to ArcGIS World Geocoding Service (only change) - runs & succeeds fine. Started all over and created the locator view on ArcGIS Online as the AGOL admin Same results -- "Error 1545 - ArcGIS Online subscription is required for geocoding the table of addresses" Tried in ArcMap (as admin) Same results (Pro and ArcMap) Changed sharing from Organization to Everyone Same results (Pro & ArcMap) Deleted them all, and created a view and didn't share it. It isn't automatically added because I didn't add it to our organization, but it is in My Content and I could add it to the project. Same error (ArcGIS Pro -- didn't test on ArcMap) So. Using our custom Student role, the built in Publisher role, and the Admin role it doesn't matter. The view locator's don't work saying you need an ArcGIS Online subscription, but the World Geocoding Service will work in every case immediately after or before on those same accounts. During this process I also grew to hate the Guided Workflow feature for geocoding addresses. Ideally it would be ask if you ever want to see it again, but at the very least the behavior after the first run through in a session should be reversed, showing the actual tool first with the option to show the guided workflow.  ... View more

Kory - thanks very much for this. I wasn't aware of the ability to create a view into the World Geocoding Service. Please forgive the several subsequent replies - I figured that would be the easiest way to give structured feedback on a number of issues. ... View more

Robert. Here is a link to a zip file with the project I used in the video below. It has a project that has a geodatabase in it with two data sets from the Esri Data & Maps for ArcGIS 2017: cities_dtl and states. It also has a CSV that has median rent prices by state and for many cities across the country. The CSV field that joins to either state names or cities names is "Location"  JoinTesting.zip - Box   ** At least there is a workaround other than creating a new data layer with the joined data included. The larger problem I run into is that as soon as you join tables changing symbology or even redrawing the map goes from blink of an eye quick to over 60 seconds. If changing symbology it is usually 60 seconds to determine new class breaks, then another 60 before it re-draws -- IF it redraws. With the lack of an Apply button and every single symbology change taking over a minute to do anything it is very hard to keep using Pro.  Here's a video demonstrating: JoinscausemajorslowdowninPro.mov - Box   Both of these were on a Citrix XenApp server with two NVIDIA M60 GRID cards (8Q profile = 16GB vGPU), 8-core XEON & 64GB RAM.  ... View more

This is consistently reproducible behavior when trying to symbolize use joined fields using CSV. Using XSLX is hit and miss.  Solutions 1. As Dan said, create a new feature dataset with the joined data included. 2. Since that isn't always desirable, "all" you have to do is select the joined field you want to symbolize and if it doesn't appear, click the Set an Expression button right next to it and either add zero (+0) or subtract zero (-0) at the end of your field. No actual change to the values, but it suddenly works.  Here's a video demonstrating: nosymbologyjoinedfields.mov - Box  ... View more

Background: I'm approaching the end of the 2nd semester of using ArcGIS Pro in an introductory GIS course. In order to be familiar enough to do what I need to in class and help the students do what they need to, I've been using Pro for many of my other GIS tasks as well for over a year. I've brought up the switch to Pro with government and private organizations in our area and out that hire students from us.  #1 - It is soooo stinking slow. It is actually quite snappy with SOME things, unfortunately the things that are the slowest are the things you do all the time - namely display your data on the screen. Before you say "your hardware...!" - I'm currently running ArcGIS Pro on a DELL server with multiple NVIDIA GRID M60 cards. As far as ArcGIS Pro is concerned, I have 16GB of video RAM, 64GB of RAM, and an 8 core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz to myself. It is reporting Direct X 11 at 174 FPS for 1920 x1200 screen. Locally I run ArcGIS Pro on Windows 10 Enterprise with a 4GHz i7, 32GB of RAM and a 4 GB AMD graphics card and SSD drives. #2 - It is plagued with UX / interface issues. The very top of this list for me, and many other users, is the frequency of re-drawing, which coupled with the extreme slowness and the lack of any way to interrupt the re-draw (in my experience, the refresh animation in the lower right is only clickable about 50% of the time. When it works, it will start re-drawing again the second you change anything, and since you can't just hit ESC, you have to be quick with your mouse to click something, then get back to the refresh icon... Don't take my word - look at this idea: Pause Drawing in ArcGIS Pro  Some specific examples: If you enter values into fields on a geoprocessing tool, or using the SQL query builder, or customize projection parameters, or etc... and click OK or RUN without either tabbing out of that field or clicking into another field, those values are not used. Symbology. A LOT of issues here. Here's the example of what brought me here today: Started with Esri's detailed cities layer for the USA (Data & Maps for ArcGIS, 2017). A definition query reduced the number of cities to 1093. Right now my map is zoomed to the Western USA, Esri's World Topographic basemap. I want to change the symbology to reflect the size of the cities by population to start with Open the Symbology pane and select Graduated Symbols from the Symbology dropdown. The Symbology pane immediately grays out - but there is no movement of the refresh icon in the Map view. There is nothing that indicates anything is happening at all except that it is using 20% CPU. After 55.1 seconds, five graduated symbols appear in the Table of Contents. The Symbology pane still grayed out, nothing on the map, but the CPU usage jumps to 50%. Another 27.5 seconds go by before the CPU usage drops and the Symbology pane un-grays.  No cities draw on the map I click the refresh icon. I Zoom to Layer. I go to the bathroom and get a drink - still no cities in my map. I open the Attribute table (which takes over 30 seconds). The cities are still there. I reset the symbology to Single Symbol. 20 seconds, then they're back. Start over. Same amount of time (cache?). This time the cities draw at the end. HERE'S THE UX PART I STARTED OUT TO ILLUSTRATE: Without any input from me, it took all that time to calculate and draw graduated symbols of the GNIS_ID. So - I choose Population, and wait again. Same thing for median rents.  I decide I actually want Proportional Symbols Even longer - to get proportional symbols of the GNIS_ID again. Even though Median Rent field was selected when I changed the symbology to Proportional Symbol.  I finally have proportional symbols for the median rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in all these cities --- See any problems!?  There are actually proportional symbols in the map The ToC is not correct - same sizes, AND note that the highest value over on the Symbology pane is only $5380 while the ToC shows up to $10,000.  Other results have shown only two symbols in the ToC (both the same size) when there are 5 classes on the symbology pane and are clearly shown on map. sorry you got the play by play on that one. But this is pretty typical.  The inability to create a new project on the root of a drive (or perceived root, e.g. network shares to a personal folder, or a common projects folder, etc.) The need to click on a folder, but DON'T go into it (when saving, connecting to folders, etc.) Inconsistencies - when a pane is pinned, why do some of the other open panes become tabs at the bottom of the pinned tab while others stay up on the side of the application window? Why doesn't the Catalog tab stay at the top of the other tabs? Why is there no Servers folder in the Catalog pane by default? Why if I right click in the Catalog pane to add one, the only type is an ArcGIS Server, no WMTS etc.?  Hidden functionality (see Keyboard shortcuts in the Contents pane—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop  for examples of things that are great to have keyboard shortcuts for, but why remove them from the right click? How is anybody supposed to know about these shortcuts? Tools that claim to be done / completed, but only did half the job, or didn't do any of it at all. Here's an example - after 3 1/2 hours, it says it "Completed" my Union. There is a new layer in my map. Nothing appears. I open the attribute table. Nothing. I have to go to the History tab on the Catalog pane to see that a Warning that the tool utterly failed to actually do what it is designed to do.  Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. The above example, I ran the Union tool again without any changes and it worked the 2nd time around. I've had others that give no warning, but there are large chunks of the new layer that clearly just didn't get processed.  Messages that are useless/meaningless. Open a layer and try to look at its metadata and you will be told that it needs to be upgraded. No offer to upgrade it. No link to a help article about how to upgrade it. No link to the tool to upgrade it. The online help has a NOTE that you will need to take that layer back to ArcMap or ArcCatalog to upgrade it. Why isn't that information in ArcGIS Pro, or a link to that help article? World Geocoder is AMAZING! Imagine my surprise when it was able to geocode 100% of a list of addresses in my home state (UT) while my own geocoder using line and point address data from our excellent state database was not able to do so.  Like the "Warning" that the tool didn't actually produce anything after 3 1/2 hours of working on it, when the World Geocoder says it matched all your addresses you have to do some digging to find out that if it can't find an address on a street, it will just drop the point at the midpoint of the street. If it can't find the street, it will just drop it in the middle of the zipcode or City (not sure which), etc. So - if you have some poor addresses you may find a bunch of "matched" addresses all together in the middle of nowhere, but at the center of Utah. I know it all sounds bad - but I actually like Pro in many ways. But there are some real deal breakers that keep me heading back to ArcMap & ArcCatalog (10.6 is GREAT!) and wondering if I'm doing the students a favor when they leave here to work in shops that haven't made the jump due to hardware costs and/or time costs, not to mention results that may or may not be complete. ... View more

This is maddening and very confusing. Not only is there no way to know what the dynamically calculated statistics are, the Table of Contents / Legend isn't updated either. This results in some very confused folks. Using the Esri Terrain multi-resolution elevation layer, the default is a min-max stretch using the dataset's min of -450 meters to the max of 8700 meters.  If I turn on DRA, I get the following image, which differentiates between mountains and valleys and everything in between much better. However, I have no idea what the min-max is, and the colors no longer match the Table of Contents (or legend if published to AGO). It still says -450 to 8700. So are those mountains near the Wyoming border (upper right) approaching 8700 meters?!  If you think Custom, think again. It still doesn't change, no matter how crazy you get (if you can't tell, I made up some numbers). Based on the Table of Contents, it appears that the entirety of Utah is above 20,000 feet or so.  I know what you're thinking - "Just change the labels you dummy!" Okay - what do I change them to? Now Utah is close to 2 million meters in elevation? There's no way to change the labels to appropriate values, because there is NO way to know what values ArcGIS is using unless you are using Min-Max for the entire dataset.  I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.1.0 ... View more

Just wanted to add my support to Paul's original question - even when it works, it doesn't work as expected. In general use, when you talk about masking something off, you are generally masking the part you don't want to mess with. If your painter worked like this tool, your walls would be naked sheetrock and your windows would be painted over. Based on tools such as Extract by Mask, or the Mask (Environment setting), when dealing with raster data Esri generally uses the term Mask the same way. Essentially it working essentially like Clip, keeping the area in the mask so you can work on it without disturbing the other parts. Unfortunately, selecting a feature layer of my study area as the Mask in the Appearance pane works like Erase -- the opposite of what I want to do. As people have mentioned, I could run Extract by Mask to get a new layer. That's fine if I have a static, well defined study area. Say I want to mask out everything except one or two HUCs (hydrologic units), but then add some more. Or have study sites that are not adjacent. Not impossible, but not as easy as just setting a layer as a Mask that I can change using definition queries and having the image mask update as I do.  Assuming I want to go the other route then, to do a definition query of everything EXCEPT my HUC(s) of interest. It works at large scales, but I'm dealing with a global elevation set. So - in addition to having the inversely queried HUC layer as a mask, I'd need to have a mask for all the rest of the world as well.  The fact that it doesn't actually do ANYTHING about half the time just makes it that much more aggravating.   ... View more

No answer. This is still one of the biggest hurdles to creating Storymaps. Also, Picasa is dead. As of March 16, 2016 - 2 years ago! Why is it that the only two choices for adding all your pictures at once are Flickr (which is great, but not super well know/used) and Picasa, which died 2 years ago?  For all the love Esri is putting on Storymaps, you'd think they would make a better way for the lay user to create them.  ... View more

Thanks Dan. Not a huge deal, but is there any reason why some applications are found in the My Esri / My Organizations / Products / Apps downloads and some are found on the downloads site you linked? I remember this confusing split to get ArcPad from the downloads site, while ArcGIS for Windows Mobile was on My Esri portal.   ... View more

Where would I find this on My Esri exactly? It isn't showing up under Products or Apps (or Product Components or ISO...). ... View more

While the new option to disable taking ArcGIS Pro licenses offline, it really needs to be able to be restricted for a certain user level, not all or nothing. I too am at a university and there are many reasons for a faculty member or graduate student to take a license offline while doing field work in remote areas. But I don't want just any student to be able to take a license offline. Right now I have a handful of licenses that were taken offline back in October (3 months) by students in a class that ended in early December. ArcGISPro_232 doesn't help me figure out where it is (and I doubt the students know where they were sitting on October 12.  It seems I've lost that seat until we renew our site license at the end of June. Please add the functionality we had in 10.x license server to limit the checkout to a certain # of days. ... View more

Basically the same question. My model is doing what it is supposed to, but the geoprocessing history is empty. So, I just ran 30 geoprocessing tools, but there is no indication that anything happened.  That would be the natural place to look, but if they are not there I am really hoping they are someplace. But like this poster, I can't find a log for the model of any kind. ... View more